Transformed Quotes
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In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.
Haruki Murakami
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Gravity Falls has transformed the children of America into an army of Dippers. I couldn't be more proud!
Alex Hirsch
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I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in the climbs, but then in the final kilometers they are transformed and do amazing things. It's not their force per se that impresses me, but rather the renaissance they experience. Seeing them suffer throughout the race only to be reborn in the final is something for fascination.
Miguel Indurain
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Celebrate each season, for you too, are transformed with the turns of the earth.
Arthur Dobrin
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Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.
Rebecca Skloot
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We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process...
Anthony Lane
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“Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.”
Alexis De Veaux
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What most of us do not realize is that we are being transformed in our thinking all the time - either by the world’s value system or by the truth of God’s Word.
Chip Ingram
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The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist who had before been bankrupt in time now found himself suddenly transformed into a capitalist with more millions in the bank than he knew how to dispose of ... More cautious people, like myself, too cautious, perhaps, are anxious first of all to make sure that the new [radioactive] clock is not as much too fast as Lord Kelvin's was too slow.
William Johnson Sollas
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
Alexis Carrel
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It is useless to teach those who do not expect to be transformed
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.
Neil Postman
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China's many nationalities need only to be transformed into the Chinese nation and to make it a highly civilized nation; then the nationalization process will be completed.
Sun Yat-sen
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Laughing, Bracken threw his sword aside and extended a hand towards the wizard. "To me," he said...The unicorn horn lept from the wizard's hand and streaked to Bracken, who caught it effortlessly. In his grasp the horn immediately transformed into a sword...
Brandon Mull
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If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
Sue Townsend
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Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue.
Karl-Henrik Robert
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Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.
Ernst Mayr
